Cowardice,
Complicity and Usurpation: Decadence and the decay of America

by Hari Heath

America began
with “the shot heard round the world.” Impassioned men and
women fought against great odds to claim that great prize of liberty.

Scholar/Warrior/Diplomats
gave their all in a fight to end the reign of a tyrant king. King George
and his “swarms of officers sent hither to harass our people
and eat out our substance,” were toppled from their wall by
a rag tag militia of tax protesters, determined to rule themselves as
freemen.

They fought side by side
as a guerrilla army of citizens and gentlemen. The war was largely a long
series of retreats that eventually wore down the British, turning the
tide with a few pivotal engagements.

As the American warriors
gained their ground and sent the king's men back across the sea, they
became scholarly statesmen who crafted a revolutionary new form of government
and the American experiment of a Constitutional Republic.

In the beginning, our republic
followed the commands of the Constitution which formed it. But it is the
nature of power to seek to increase itself. Always.

The founders of our nation
knew this tendency well and installed many checks and balances in our
national Constitution to limit any excessive collections of power.

The Constitution breaks down
the functions of government into three branches and limits the acts and
authorities of each one. This being good, but not good enough, the Founders
added the Bill of Rights to spell out what rights the people had, thereby
placing limits and duties upon those operating within the general government.

Government or administrative
regime?

If you bothered to look,
you may find that the government set up by the Constitution is not the
one we have operating today. Yes the Congress, the Supreme Court, and
the Executive offices appear to be occupied, but what force of government
actually reaches out and touches you?

Almost always, it is an administrative
agency.

Article One, Section One,
of the federal Constitution clearly states that all legislative power
shall be vested in the Congress. The founders' intent was to require that
the power to make law would remain accountable; that only those who were
chosen to represent the people or the states could have such power; and
if they abused that power they could be removed by election or impeachment.

The Tenth Article of the
Bill of Rights further declares limits to that power, commanding that
the powers of the federal government are limited to those enumerated by
the Constitution and that all other powers are reserved to the states
or the people respectively.

In the beginning this was
the plan. The constitutional offices and areas of governmental operation
were few and limited in their scope. Constitutional government could never
be expanded to regulate and meddle in so many areas of our lives. A sovereign
people would yield a limited amount of their sovereignty to a government
which would serve them. In theory, the people would remain master of their
servant.

But, as Lord Acton stated:
“power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
And absolute corruption in our age, has taken the form of administrative
agencies.

The Code of Federal Regulations,
also known as the CFRs, are unlegislated “laws” laid down
by agencies themselves, in defiance of the Constitution's commands. Further
defiance of the supreme law takes the form of Executive Orders where the
President imposes “laws” made with the stroke of his pen.

This and many other transgressions
have led to a corporate government that has been super-imposed over our
constitutional government.

Fascism, by definition, is
the merger of corporate and state interests which vest power in a single
authority. Our military-industrial-media-pharmaceutical-financier controlled-fascist-corporate-federal
state has become such an authority.

We daily submit to it in
cowardice and complicity. We feed it with allegiance and taxes we do not
owe. We choose the illusions of liberty fed to us by its media over the
freedom that would be ours if we were willing to undertake the effort
to seize and maintain it. We support the grand deception and our own enslavement
because we are cowards who choose complicity and compliance with the administrative,
fascist state.

Remember, as we celebrate
our “independence,” what those brave souls who signed the
Declaration of Independence had to say about the king's administrative
agencies:

“He has erected
a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers, to harass
our people and eat out their substance.”

Do you pay your taxes to
an agency? Get permission to drive on “your” highway from
an agency? Do agencies issue your permit to build a house, or operate
a business, or own a gun?

Is how you farm, or log,
or hire a worker controlled by an agency? Does an agency regulate where
you get your water from and where it goes to when you're done with it?

Isn't just about everything
you use, buy, or own controlled by an agency?

Does the Constitution create
any agencies? No!

Do you see how we, as once
free and brave Americans, now cowardly submit to innumerable intrusions
into our private lives by a host of agencies?

Have we become so placated
by our plentiful possessions that we are no longer willing to pledge our
lives our fortunes and our sacred honor to the cause of freedom? Do we
cower in complicity, surrendering our liberties for the security and benefits
offered by the socialist state?

Our Liberty Teeth

Guns used to be common and
acceptable in American culture. It is, after all, how we won our freedom
from the English king and his agents.

Guns are the liberty teeth
of the Bill of Rights. Right after the freedom of religion, to speak and
publish, to peaceably assemble, and petition for redress, came the teeth.

The Second Amendment guarantees
that each man may possess the means to terminate tyranny. It is nothing
less than the right to keep and use whatever force becomes necessary to
maintain the high principles of our national trust, the Constitution and
that government which is founded by it.

It is nothing less than the
right of each man to possess, without infringement, the means by which
he can put a permanent hole in the face of tyranny, thereby securing a
free state, for himself and his posterity.

But with the socialist programming
in the media and our government schools, our liberty teeth have been cast
aside as an old set of dentures. The “Right to keep and bear arms”
has atrophied because we no longer exercise it. When was the last time
you saw a private citizen openly carrying a firearm in a public place?

Many Americans would feel
uneasy if their fellow citizens were openly armed. Most have succumbed
to the programming that only the police and military should bear arms
for us. The social fascists win when American are intimidated into surrendering
their rights.

The problem with
tyrants is they just don't listen

Our legal remedies to redress
the assault of agency intrusions include letter writing to our legislators,
voting, suing in court for our rights, or petitioning the executive officers
or the agencies themselves.

Sometimes these work, but
usually they require a monumental effort before we obtain any success.
More often we fail to achieve any justice when we appeal to corrupted
courts and executive officers. And legislators cannot afford to help ordinary
citizens because they are indebted to the lobbyists who represent the
special interests that purchased their offices for them.

When these civil processes
fail to achieve the desired result we are then left with a choice between
accepting failure or applying the final solution:

The
Second Amendment solution.

Perhaps we are too morally
guided to use the Second Amendment solution as our founders did with great
success. Like the death penalty, it has seen too little use in our time
to have any real effect. What percent of murders result in a conviction
and the carrying out of a death sentence? Less than one percent? Not hardly
a deterrent to the murderer who knows the odds of receiving final justice.

Our tyrants in office and
their agents in administrative regimes similarly have not recently been
reminded that the Second Amendment applies to them.

Thus, they go on regulating
to their hearts content as we suffer intrusions and taxation beyond anything
our Founders ever tolerated. And daily we submit!

Just before the American
Revolution Samuel Adams said: “If ye love wealth better than
freedom; the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest
of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel, nor you
arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set
lightly upon you. And may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

Americans today do not seem
to understand why we celebrate the Fourth of July. It's not about sparklers
and firecrackers, it's about remembering the real bullets and real rockets
fired in offense of freedom; it's about remembering those who dedicated
their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor and were willing to
give their all so that we could live in freedom.

And if we lose our freedom
and, therefore, lose our country, how will our posterity remember our
contribution to their enslavement -- with a day of silence?